Dean Anderson

You mean that Koine Greek is high art and Modern Greek is hack scribblings?

seven8s

Is the Bible inspired..........

All creative endevors are inspired, in spirit, with their authorship. perhaps a more interesting question would be, what inspires, motivates, the mind that interprets it? These boards (for the betterment of mankind) effectively answer that question intelligently but sometimes fail creatively, the ying and the yang, the right and the left, wholeness. Just an honest opinion, not a criticism.

CX

Actually I was referring to the linguistic differences rather than the content of the works cited. Oh...and cut Rowling a break. She's writing for kids. My kids love the Harry Potter books.

Back to the difference between Koine and Modern Greek. Following is a passage from Beowulf in the original Old English (sometimes called Anglo-Saxon). I'm a native English speaker and I can't make heads or tails of it.

Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,

seven8s

Gotta a little dyslexia going here fellows but I see the above verse as indicatvie of the atheist point of view to some degree..............it is profitable to reproof, correct, reteach inspired scripture........ I don't think my point of view is cherry picking. Example read: Spare the rod, meaning don't use it, a way of being, replaced by another, rather, spoil the child!

Now I'm not very good at my grammatical english lessons, so go ahead and correct me but..........................the subject is "all scripture" in the above verse, not the reader as implied and taught. "Teaching, reproof (proof read ?), and correction are what we (the reader) are supposed to do with the subject. The result: an adequate, righeous man,meaning simply.........he has met the challenge, he is right. I will go so far as to say that begins with atheistism.